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Performance and Cure: Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America (Ancients in Action)
Karelisa V. Hartigan
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Paperback. Argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the dream therapy the patient experienced at the sanctuary. This title discusses the mind-body relationship in the healing process. Series: Classical Inter/faces. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228.
In this fascinating addition to the "Classical Inter/faces" series, Karelisa Hartigan suggests that drama was regularly performed in the theatres built within or adjacent to the ancient sanctuaries of Asklepios. She argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the dream therapy the patient experienced at the sanctuary. Patients who viewed this drama were ready to receive the nightly ministrations of the deity, his attendants and his animals while they slept in the dormitory at the Asklepieion. To support her thesis, Hartigan discusses the mind-body relationship in the healing process, a relationship the medical profession ... Read more
In this fascinating addition to the "Classical Inter/faces" series, Karelisa Hartigan suggests that drama was regularly performed in the theatres built within or adjacent to the ancient sanctuaries of Asklepios. She argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the dream therapy the patient experienced at the sanctuary. Patients who viewed this drama were ready to receive the nightly ministrations of the deity, his attendants and his animals while they slept in the dormitory at the Asklepieion. To support her thesis, Hartigan discusses the mind-body relationship in the healing process, a relationship the medical profession ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duckworth Publishing
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Classical Inter/faces
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780715636398
SKU
V9780715636398
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About Karelisa V. Hartigan
Karelisa Hartigan is Professor Emerita of Classics, University of Florida. She is the author of "Muse on Madison Avenue: Classical Myth in Contemporary Advertising" (2002), "Greek Tragedy on the American Stage" (1995), "Ambiguity & Self-Deception: The Apollo & Artemis Plays of Euripides" (1991) and "The Poets and the Cities" (1979).
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